In this episode I talk about the importance of being prepared for a disaster that takes your primary data center offline.

Being prepared to keep IT systems operating during or after a disaster is critical
What is DR, how does it work?

How will you offer IT services if a fire destroys your data center?
Email
Voice
Business Software

Billing
Accounts Payable
Payroll
CRM


What servers will you use?
How recent will the data on them be?
What services and data will be available?


This should be driven from management as a part of business continuity
It should be driven by IT even if BC isn’t in place
Hosting

On premises, separate facility

Up front cost
Maintenance
Space


Data center

Ongoing cost
Maintenance


Cloud


Scope

What needs to be included?

Is restoring from nightly backups enough for some servers?


RPO – recovery point objective
RTO – recovery time objective
Budget


Testing

Soft failover
Hard failover



 

Final Thoughts

DR should be considered a critical part of every IT infrastructure, make  sure you have it, that the scope is accurate and that it works.



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Thanks for listening!

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